This is what brought me to this forum to start with. I am a long standing Non-Thiestic guy. i had a great parochial education but never got the 'warm fuzzy' feeling my classmates did.
No biggie. I never felt it was important for me to go out and proselytize about my non-belief in a supreme being control everything.
I work with a man about 15 years my junior(I'm 46) and he is a big Epicurus/Bertrand Russell supporter.
I read most of this material YEARS ago, so initially it was a common point of interest.
Now, though, he has this tendency to go out and discuss this point of view with all the people we work with, who are predominantly Christian (or Protestant as I would describe them).
When someone ends a point with "well thats just what I believe, thats why I believe it" he gets worked into a lather.
Eventually they usually wind up submitting just to make it end, but i hate it for him, and them.
He refers to these exchanges as trying to 'teach evolution to creationists'
I guess I am asking if anyone has been on one side or another of this point of action, being so strong in your understandings that its eerily similar to the proselytizing of a Southern Baptist minister?
Thoughts??
No biggie. I never felt it was important for me to go out and proselytize about my non-belief in a supreme being control everything.
I work with a man about 15 years my junior(I'm 46) and he is a big Epicurus/Bertrand Russell supporter.
I read most of this material YEARS ago, so initially it was a common point of interest.
Now, though, he has this tendency to go out and discuss this point of view with all the people we work with, who are predominantly Christian (or Protestant as I would describe them).
When someone ends a point with "well thats just what I believe, thats why I believe it" he gets worked into a lather.
Eventually they usually wind up submitting just to make it end, but i hate it for him, and them.
He refers to these exchanges as trying to 'teach evolution to creationists'
I guess I am asking if anyone has been on one side or another of this point of action, being so strong in your understandings that its eerily similar to the proselytizing of a Southern Baptist minister?
Thoughts??
